Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece: The Experience of Subordinates, 700—300 BCE

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Samuel D. Gartland (Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture, Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture, University of Leeds) David W. Tandy (Visiting Research Fellow in Classics, Visiting Research Fellow in Classics, University of Leeds)

Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece

The Experience of Subordinates, 700—300 BCE

Samuel D. Gartland (Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture, Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture, University of Leeds), David W. Tandy (Visiting Research Fellow in Classics, Visiting Research Fellow in Classics, University of Leeds)

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Oxford University Press
04 April 2024

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Social discrimination; Social mobility

Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece explores the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in the Greek world 700DL300 BCE. Throughout the course of the ten contributions it aims to bring forth the voices of the various groups and individuals affected by differing structures and degrees of subordination, and explore what can be gained by examining these together. What did these various and numerous groups, especially those who are underrepresented in scholarship, hold in common?

Most people belonged to one of these subordinated groups, but recovering their existence is particularly difficult in archaic and classical Greece. Some groups we cannot hear about because they are not subjects of surviving discourses; some groups were systematically ignored or deliberately excluded from the historical record. The many with only partial or zero legal rights-slaves, metics, exiles-all benefit from renewed revelatory efforts, and by putting their experiences into conversation with other subordinated groups.

This volume contains individual studies of slaves and indentured labourers, exiles, women, and disenfranchised of many kinds. It brings together leading scholars in the field and covers a broad range of philological, historical, and archaeological approaches to the discussion in an effort to better understand both the processes and the conditions of subordination.

Edited by: Samuel D. Gartland (Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture University of Leeds), David W. Tandy (Visiting Research Fellow in Classics, Visiting Research Fellow in Classics, University of Leeds)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198889601
ISBN 10: 0198889607
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 04 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgments Samuel D. Gartland and David W. Tandy: Introduction: Subordination in Boiotia 1: Julien Zurbach: A Moral Economy of the Demos in Early Archaic Greece 2: Anthony T. Edwards: Solon and the Demos in his Poetry 3: Sarah C. Murray: Reconstructing the Lives of Urban Craftspeople in Archaic and Classical Greece 4: Lucia Cecchet: ""Don't tell anybody you are a thete!"" Athenian Thetes: Identity and Visibility 5: Hans van Wees: The Athenian working class: scale, nature and development 6: David M. Lewis: The Local Slave Systems of Ancient Greece 7: Sarah Forsdyke: How to Find a New Master: The Agency of Enslaved Persons in Ancient Greece 8: Sara Wijma: Spoken from the Grave: the Construction of Social Identities on the Funerary Monuments of Metics in Classical Athens 9: Deborah Kamen: Varying Statuses, Varying Rights: A Case Study of the graph=e hubre=os 10: Rebecca Futo Kennedy: Strategies of Disenfranchisement: ""Citizen"" Women, Minor Heirs and the Precarity of Status in Attic Oratory Index"

Samuel D. Gartland (Ph.D. Leeds) is lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture at Leeds. He was formerly lecturer in ancient history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and departmental lecturer in ancient history at the University of Oxford. David W. Tandy (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of Classics Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Tennessee (US), and is currently Visiting Research Fellow in Classics at Leeds.